2 Injured After Car Crashes Into Building In Springfield, New Jersey
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Two people were injured after their car crashed into a building overnight in Springfield, New Jersey.
Toppled chairs and tables lay in the waiting room of the Advanced Pain Care medical office- its concrete walls were pushed in by the force of a silver sedan that crashed into the building just after midnight.
The impact left a gaping hole in the medical office, one of many businesses housed in the building that were all empty at the time of the crash. The car ended upside down on its roof, its front end smashed, CBS2's Magdalena Doris reported.
Lorraine Cadena arrived to work this morning in shock.
"I saw it on the news and you have to see it to believe it," Cadena said.
Two people inside the car were pinned in place for more than 30 minutes. In police scanner audio from Broadcastify.com, first responders can be heard calling for help to cut the injured occupants from the wreckage.
"Two patients confirmed trapped in the vehicle, FD is currently working on extraction," a first responder says.
In that extraction process, the fire department ripped the doors off the car and pulled the two victims to safety, rushing them to University Hospital in Newark.
One person is in critical condition while the other is in serious condition.
"It's a dangerous bend you come off the highway over there -- you come off the highway and you're going at a decent speed," Chris Lalevee, who works in the building, said.
According to an office manager, there have been around half a dozen accidents in the same area on Route 124.
The road is maintained by the State Department of Transportation. CBS2 has reached out for comment.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
